ALA Annual Conference 2008: Archiving in Practice with JPEG2000 (Sunday, 8am to 10am)

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The JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries Interest Group of the LITA  
division of ALA is pleased to present a program on Archiving in  
Practice with JPEG2000 on Sunday, June 29th from 8am to 10am in  
Ballroom E, Anaheim Convention Center.

Lead Presentation
Mr. Justin Dávila, Digital Media Workflow, Business and Technology  
Consultant, will start the program with an overview of the JPEG2000  
technology followed by a review of projects that use JPEG2000 for  
still and moving images. Special emphasis will be placed on the  
concept of "visually lossless" compression -- a middle-ground between  
mathematically lossless compression and lossy compression. Projects  
and technologies to be reviewed include the Dance Heritage Coalition,  
Library of Congress, National Institute of Health/National Library of  
Medicine, and the Sony 4k Digital Cinema Projectors.

JPEG2000 Lightning Talks
Following Mr. Dávila's presentation, members of the audience are  
invited to contribute to the discussion by presenting 5-minute  
"lightning talks" on a project or technology in the cultural heritage  
arena. The "lightning talk" format is an adaptation of the  
"unconference" meeting style. The concept is to have self-selected  
presenters talk on a topic of interest to the audience for no more  
than five minutes at a time. The goal is to give an inch deep and mile  
wide perspective on topics that can be the start of follow-up  
conversations among the presenters and members of the audience.

Due to the quick nature of the lightning talk format, presenters are